Improved cooler for beer and other liquids



, jnited l tait@ tutti @Mitra Letters Patent No. 97 ,540, dated December 7 1869.

IMIROVED COOLER FOR BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To alwhom fit may concer-u:

. Be it known that I, JOHN J Aeon MRKI, of Rich'- mond, in thecounty ofWayne, and State of Indiana, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Liquid- Coolers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete 4description of the construction and operationof the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, making vpart of this specilication, in which-` Figure l is a front view,

Figure 2 is `a side View,

Figure Slis a ground plan,

`Figure 4 is a vertical section, and

Figure 5, a section ofthe fan.

My invention' relatesto a device `for cooling liquids, and consists of a frame-Work, A, which affords support to the apparatus for that purpose.

This consists of a series of perforated receptacles, into which the liquid toy be cooled is received in a heated state, and from which it is discharged in minut-e streams, which break up into minute drops, like rain, "and through which falling drops, a current of cold air is caused to pass, thus carrying oii the superfluous heat, 'and reducingI the liquid tothe temperature ot' the blast.

A1, .in fig.- 4, sho\vs4 a receptacle, into which the heated liquid isreceived,.the same part being repre- Wsented by the same sign 4in the otlieijgux'es.

- This receptacle has a bottom, perforated withsmall holes, through which the liquid passes in a'inely-divided state, like rain-drops, and falls into another like receptacle, A, beneath.

F represents a fan-wheel,baving wings like a common blower, and enclosed in the fan-case C, the open ing for the blast looking toward the falling drops ol liquid below the perforated bottoni ot' A1, and through which the blast passes, havingits exit at l).

The falling liquid is lreceived in the perforated receptacle A, where it receives the second cooling-blast from the fau-wheel F1, the blast passing out at the opening D.

From the perforated receptacle A2, the liquid falls into the perforated receptacle A3, where it is exposed to another cooling-blast from the fan F2, whence it falls into the perforated receptacle A, and is discharged through the spout A5, beneath.

These perforated receptacles may be multiplied to any desired extent, until Athe liquid is reduced to the temperature ofthe air forming the blast. v

All the fans are put in revolution bythe drivingwheel a, and band a', or in any other convenientl manner, the object being to expose the liquid to a series of cold-air blasts, when in a finely-divided state, caused by its passage through the perforated receptacles.

In this improvement, I do not confine myself to the precise form of apparatus herein described andshown, but can vary the 'form of the apparatus to any'desired extent, so long as I preserve the leading'featnres of the invention.

NVhat I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure-by Letters Patent, is lh'e combination of a series of perforated paus with a series of blowers, operatingsubstantially as-described.

VJOHN JACOB MARKI.

Vieron HAGMANN,

T. X. KOEHLER. 

